I've been out and about in the city with a new point and shoot camera I bought recently (the Canon S110 - which I highly recommend). Looking around at Toronto, I am often brought face to face with the utter hodgepodge of Toronto's urban form and architecture. I used to think this was a bad thing but I've come around on this - a city's built form should tell its story, and in this sense Toronto's hodgepodge is its story. None of the clean lines of Haussmann's Parisian boulevards here, Toronto is a city marked by chaotic waves of growth and immigration, from a frontier Upper Canadian fort, to one of the most international places on earth. This could not have happened cleanly in roughly only 200 years, and has created it own odd beauty. In some of these pictures you can see the interposing new city on the old, a transformation in progress. Now we just need to get our infrastructure

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Hi! My name is Tom Broen and I've started this site to further my interest and begin a conversation on the subject of public infrastructure as a social catalyst. Please check out any of the resources on here and feel free to join the discussion.